Amnesty International said today on World Refugee Day that the government of Pakistan must urgently stop arbitrarily arresting and harassing Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, many of whom are fleeing persecution by the Taliban, Khaama Press reported.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that "duplicity of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin's character is unacceptable" as the latter is now opposing the arrest of his fellow minister Senthil Balaji while the DMK president was the one who called him "corrupt" in the past.
In a major crackdown on the menace of drugs in the national capital, the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police has arrested 776 narco-offenders under Operation Kawach in 615 cases of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) and recovered about 36 kgs of heroin this year to the date,
Madurai district court on Tuesday granted bail to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State Secretary SG Surya, who was arrested on June 16 in connection with his recent tweet on Madurai MP Su Venkatesan.
Earlier on Monday an FIR was registered against six accused in the matter. Out of the six, the police took three accused into custody and National Security Act (NSA) was invoked against them.
Delhi's Patiala House Court on Tuesday granted five days of police custody remand of two accused Rahul and Mohd Harun arrested in Delhi University (DU) student stabbing case to Delhi police.
The minister for Electricity and Prohibition and Excise, Balaji, was arrested on June 14 and admitted to a government hospital in Chennai after he complained of chest pain. He was allowed by the Madras High Court on June 15 to be shifted to a private hospital of his choice.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two Naxals, including a woman, in connection with the 2019 Tiriya encounter case of Chhattisgarh which claimed the lives of six Naxals and one civilian, the agency said on Tuesday.